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DrillA2.382

Straight wooden handle with a long metal spike attached at one end.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
steel metal and wood
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureK4.68

Figure of a woman wearing a plain straight skirt and with a pot balanced on her head. Her hair is carved with texturing. She has eyes, a nose, a mouth, ears, and breasts. Her arms are resting at her sides with her hands folded into one another across her lap. The pot is rounded with a horizontal middle band and flares upward to create a large wide lip. She is standing on a square base.

Culture
East African
Material
ebony wood
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PotK4.64

A deep cylindrical pot with horizontal leaf bands, possibly palm leaf, connected to each other with vertical bands of braided bark? The bottom of the pot is rounded with a herring-bone-like weave. The pot appears to have been plastered with a mixture of fibre or hair and reddish clay. Simple design on the three legs of two horizontal wide-grooved bands around the top.

Culture
East African
Material
bark, wood and palm leaf
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadrestK4.58

Plain dark brown wood headrest with a circular base, a cylindrical stem, and a concave oval rest on top. Small circles stamped or imprinted on top of the rest.

Culture
Maasai ?
Material
wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadrestK4.57

Plain brown wood headrest with two rounded rectangular feet, each of which has a cylindrical stem, and a thin concave rectangular rest on top. Three holes along the upper part and three holes along the bottom part.

Culture
Bari ?
Material
wood
Made in
“South Sudan ?” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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One-note XylophoneK4.54 a-b

Kamba made of a calabash sounding chamber with a burned dotted design. The sticks supporting the sounding board are fixed into clay around the rim of the calabash. These sticks include the four legs at an angle with each pair connected by rope which goes through, and attaches a long flat rectangular wood piece with pointed ends. There is a stick (part b) which tapers at one end that has five angled sides.

Culture
Chewa
Material
wood, calabash fruit, rubber, clay and fibre
Made in
Blantyre, Malawi
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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EarspoolK4.49

Two plain brown wood cylindrical ear plugs, each with a hole drilled through the centre, and attached to one another with skin.

Culture
Kikuyu
Material
wood, bark and skin
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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AdzeK4.45 a-b

Long wooden handle (part a) with pointed angled piece at top wrapped with strips of wood. Hole for flared cutting edge (part b). Cutting edge is a tubular hollow shank that widens at the end and tapers towards the blade.

Culture
Central African ?
Material
iron metal and wood
Made in
Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BuckleA2.128

Part of a dog harnesss in the shape of an oval block with two drilled holes for the traces to pass through.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
bone ?
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ScoopA2.127

Small, pick-like piece of bone with a rounded finial with three notches.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
bone
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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